Physician Voted Slovenia's First Black Mayor

Ghana-born doctor Peter Bossman has won local elections in Slovenia's coastal town of Piran, becoming Slovenia's first black mayor.

According to final results of the October 24 run-off election, center-left Social Democrat (SD) candidate Bossman scored a tight victory receiving 51.4 percent of the vote against outgoing Piran mayor Tomaz Gantar, who got 48.4 percent.

Bossman, 54, is married to a Croatian doctor and the couple has two daughters.

He came to Slovenia in the early 1980s, when the country was still part of the former Yugoslavia, to study medicine.